Job Description Summary

This role is within the Fuels and Digital Engineering Organization’s Methods, Analysis, and Design team, which is responsible for the fuel and core design efforts associated with new and advanced reactor types as well as the development, maintenance, analytics, technical consultation, and licensing of engineering computer codes, correlations, methodologies needed for these reactor types. As such, the team interfaces with multiple stakeholders inside and outside of GVH Nuclear as they perform their design activities and supporting methods development and analyses roles. As a reactor-core-focused organization, the team contains a diverse set of expertise across neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and deterministic safety analyses.

This role is intended for a current subject matter expert in the areas of reactor design, computational methods development/coding, numerical analysis, and fast reactor neutronic and thermal-hydraulic analysis, methods, and testing.

Activities aimed at proving a concept to be valid or technically feasible by the application of scientific and engineering methodologies. Work in this family typically has the objective of demonstrating through test or analyses the performance and implementation potential of a concept

Accountable for the quality of own work. Subject to direct operations supervision/prescribed work instructions/systems checking. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment. Drives technical direction of products and processes.

The preferred work location for this role is at the GVH Nuclear headquarters in Wilmington, NC (hybrid work arrangements available), but permanent remote work arrangements are also possible.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Programming experience with C++/Fortran and Python.

• Responsible for performing neutronic and thermal-hydraulic calculations supporting advanced reactor design efforts.

• Responsible for supporting the technical development, accuracy and uncertainty qualification, testing, verification, regulatory licensing, and maintenance of analytical methods required for evaluation of steady-state and transient core/fuel performance of nuclear reactors.

• Work within an approved regulatory framework for nuclear software quality assurance for engineering computer programs.

• Prepare, document, and present technical data to internal and external customers.

• Contribute to and lead team process improvements to drive speed and simplification.

• Communicate with internal/external users of the methods through support, documentation, and training.

• Ensure work is performed with high quality in accordance with NRC rules and regulations, customer requirements, and business quality assurance standards.

• Drive a team culture based on teamwork, integrity, candor, transparency, and execution on commitments.

• Effectively communicate and coordinate activities with other team members on engineering/technical issues.

• Assist and provide support to the team technical leader and functional manager to plan, status and execute projects.

• Support the interface with various regulatory agencies (NRC, DOE, etc.) as appropriate.

• Honest and straightforward with a high level of personal integrity.

• Detail oriented and accountable for results.

• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team.

• Displays a strong drive for continuous improvement.

• Displays an engaging, can-do, optimistic attitude.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Strong analytical capabilities, problem solving skills, and process skills.

• Conceptual or theoretical activities related to the application of the breakdown (fission) as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics. (In the sub-field of nuclear fission, it includes the interaction and maintenance of systems and components like nuclear reactors, nuclear power plants, and/or nuclear weapons. The field also includes the study of medical and other applications of (generally ionizing) radiation, nuclear safety, heat/thermodynamics transport, nuclear fuel and/or other related technology (e.g., radioactive waste disposal), and the problems of nuclear prol